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title: A Fox fell into a well, and though it was not very deep, he found th… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: A Fox fell into a well, and though it was not very deep, he found that he could not get out again. Who acts: Fox, he. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Goat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Goat, sentence 1

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A Fox fell into a well, and though it was not very deep, he found that he could not get out again.

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**Who acts:** Fox, he · **What happens:** fall, not be, find, not get out · **To what, where:** well · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Goat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fox, he), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg19994:75:1
# text = A Fox fell into a well, and though it was not very deep, he found that he could not get out again.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
9	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
23	out	out	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	again	again	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | a Fox |  |  |  |  | into a well *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into well=Result |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | Fox |  |  |  |  | deep *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **get out** | could | he |  |  |  | again | out *property* | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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